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• The House That Gave Sucky Tricks
• Snowdark - The Fairest, And The Freakiest, Of Them All
• Man Runs into His Exact Lookalike on Airline Flight
• Halloween Costumes Made By People Who Clearly Hate Kids
• 25-Foot Pumpkin Rampages through Town
• The<i> Today Show</i> Dresses for Halloween, It Goes Horribly Wrong
• Kerry Packer, Sitting in a Tree
• 17 Better Names for Musical Instruments
• Kids Do "The Robots"
• The Most Vivid Sex Education Book Ever Made
• Here, Let This Huge Spider Crawl on Your Face
• 13 Foreboding Facts About <i>The Omen</i>
• Book Monster - Self Help Is A Bit Dry, But Cookbooks Are Delicious!
• Are Humans Meant to be Monogamous?
• Celebrity Appearances Explained
• 363 Paintings on Tea Bags
• The Stories Behind Banned Candies
• Man Saves Baby Deer, Deer Doesn't Want To Leave Man's Side
• The Real Reason They Gave Drugs to Spiders
• Vote for the Best Horror Movie in this Horror Bracket
• Trying to Capture a Halloween Cat Photo
• 31 Thrilling Transformations Realized with the Power of Makeup
• What a Modern-Day Aladdin Would Look Like

The House That Gave Sucky Tricks Posted: 31 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT Homestar Runner is back with a Halloween special! Strong Bad wants to open a haunted house with new and different features that instill a more modern sort of dread. Welcome to St. Cadaverstump’s totally not just an old furniture warehouse Mortuary! (YouTube link) Pay close attention to the Halloween costumes the regulars wear for this. When it says “end,” it’s not the end. When the credits run, that’s not the end, either.  -via Metafilter

Snowdark - The Fairest, And The Freakiest, Of Them All Posted: 31 Oct 2015 02:00 AM PDT Snowdark by Albo People love to get all dressed up in their scariest costumes for Halloween, and even those cartoon royals who spend every day all dressed up pull out all the stops when it comes to creating a scary Halloween costume. Here we see Snow White getting ready to frighten the wee folks (the kids, not the seven dwarves) with her Halloween costume, a black leather and latex getup reminiscent of the Evil Queen's bedroom attire...wait, Snow isn't getting dressed up for Halloween, now is she? Add some dark humor to your geeky wardrobe with this Snowdark t-shirt by Albo, it's the coolest way to show your allegiance to the dark side of life! Visit Albo's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more frightfully good designs: Furiosa Pitstop The Great Bazinger More Than A Blanket Immortan Muttley View more designs by Albo | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

Man Runs into His Exact Lookalike on Airline Flight Posted: 31 Oct 2015 02:00 AM PDT (Photo: Lee Beattie) Photographer Neil Thomas Douglas was on a flight to Galway, Ireland when he noticed that the passenger seated right next to him looked just like him—nearly an identical twin! They took a photo and shared a laugh. Then, later that night, they bumped into each other a pub. Have you ever met a doppelganger of yourself? -via Huffington Post

Halloween Costumes Made By People Who Clearly Hate Kids Posted: 31 Oct 2015 12:00 AM PDT When kids discover the joy of trick-or-treating and actually get excited about going out on Halloween they're finally at that perfect age to make them wear a costume they hate and scar them for life! Many kid's costumes seem to be created without much thought on the part of the designer, such as this Twister costume that says "put your hands and feet all over me, strange person!"   And then there are those costumes that seem to have been made by a designer who truly despises children, because who else could justify dressing a kid up as a walking trashcan? You can tell the costume designer really hated kids because they went out of their way to hide the kid's face, so people wouldn't be grossed out by the fact that the rotten smell is actually a kid in a costume! See 11 Great Halloween Costumes For (People Who Hate Their) Kids at Cracked (contains NSFW language)

25-Foot Pumpkin Rampages through Town Posted: 30 Oct 2015 11:00 PM PDT (Video Link) The owners of Big AZ Promotions were shocked when their massive inflatable pumpkin got loose and rolled down the street. They thought that it had been securely anchored. Instead, the 350-pound, 25-foot tall jack-o'-lantern rolled into the middle of an intersection in Peoria, Arizona. The inflatable briefly became stuck under a lamppost. Then it kept going with the wind, hopping over a wall, and moving through a parking lot, traveling a quarter of a mile before coming to a halt in a park. You can read more at the local NBC news affiliate (warning: auto-start video). -via Ed Driscoll

The<i> Today Show</i> Dresses for Halloween, It Goes Horribly Wrong Posted: 30 Oct 2015 10:00 PM PDT It's the Great Chumpkin, Charlie Brown When the Today Show hit the airwaves this morning, it's surprising that, knowing the show was live, the citizens of New York City didn't immediately flee the area en masse. Risking great protest, backlash and possible bodily harm, the cast of the show dressed as what should have been one of the most innocuous and sweet bunch of characters on Earth: the Peanuts Gang. But somewhere in between Al Roker's terrifying Charlie Brown getup and one seriously sinister Snoopy, something (or a lot of things) went horribly awry. For their sake, I hope these people intended to be The Creepiest Peanuts Ever (and Ever).  Gird your loins and follow the links to see Matt Lauer as Lucy, Kathie Lee Gifford as a Woodstock straight out of Hitchcock's The Birds and more, here and here.  The most frightening Pig Pen ever Linus, like you've never seen him

Kerry Packer, Sitting in a Tree Posted: 30 Oct 2015 09:00 PM PDT Flash flooding in Texas this morning caught Kerry Packer off guard. His car was swept down a creek! He escaped the car as it filled with water, and climbed a tree. Packer also got video footage of the incident, which he sent to his wife, who sent it to the local TV station, KVUE. The TV station called Packer during the noon newscast for a live interview about his experience. The news anchors did not know that Packer was still in the tree! (YouTube link) KVUE sent reporters down to Rinard Creek, but they couldn’t get close to Packer because the water was still too deep. They recorded his eventual rescue by helicopter. Packer is said to be fine now. -via reddit

17 Better Names for Musical Instruments Posted: 30 Oct 2015 08:00 PM PDT Can you identify the many different instruments in a classical music orchestra? If not, then I suggest this handy guide of instrument names that make practical sense. Don’t underestimate the skill necessary to play a whack-a-dingle. You’ve got to do a lot more than just whack your dingle to make the dingle sing.

Kids Do "The Robots" Posted: 30 Oct 2015 07:00 PM PDT German school children perform “Die Roboter” (The Robots) by Kraftwerk. This awesome project looks like it was a lot of fun! Some of the comments at YouTube, translated from German, praise the project for incorporating German music history into the lower grades. Music history? That can make you feel really old. (YouTube link) You can see the original 1978 video, or the 2013 version at YouTube. -via b3ta

The Most Vivid Sex Education Book Ever Made Posted: 30 Oct 2015 06:00 PM PDT Sexual education literature is often blasted for being too vague or too clinical for kids to understand, which is exactly how those who don't want sex ed taught in schools like their literature. But there's no place for vagueness in sex ed, and even this beautifull illustrated book from 1968 called How Babies Are Made explained sex better than many modern sex ed textbooks. It does, however, omit a visual reference of the sex act itself, which is forgivable considering when the book was published, but overall Time Life did a bang up job of creating a kid's sex ed primer. How Babies Are Made is full of beautiful papercut illustrations by Blake Hampton, easy to understand descriptions of sex acts, and connects everything sexual to the process of fertilization. Maybe it's time for this book to be reprinted? -Via BuzzFeed

Here, Let This Huge Spider Crawl on Your Face Posted: 30 Oct 2015 05:00 PM PDT (Video Link) Do you love spiders? Of course you do! Spiders are fun. Lisa Donovan loves it when her pregnant giant orb spider (Nephila maculata) goes for a walk on her face. The spider is venomous, but, Donovan points out, she has a pleasant personality. -via Ace of Spades HQ

13 Foreboding Facts About <i>The Omen</i> Posted: 30 Oct 2015 04:00 PM PDT The Omen | Image: Twentieth Century Fox  With many of us cozying up on the couch and watching our favorite horror films during this time of year, the spotlight is on the scare. Whether it's a recent release or a classic, there's nothing like savoring something spooky on a cool, October evening. One popular classic is the original version of The Omen (1976). Numbers of the beast, hell hounds, evil governesses, otherworldly spawn: what more could you ask for? The article linked below is a list of facts that you may not know about the film. For instance,  8. LEE REMICK'S REACTION TO THE BABOONS WAS REAL There’s a scene in the movie where Damien’s mother takes him on an outing to a safari park. Apparently sensing Damien's evil, the baboons violently attack the car. To get the baboons to run at the vehicle, handlers refrained from feeding them the night before. When the scene was filmed in the morning, food was placed on and around the car, bringing the hungry primates right over. To make them angry, handlers placed two baby baboons in the car with the actors and the trainer, thinking the adult baboons would be upset about being separated from the youngsters. It did the trick ... maybe a little too well. “Lee screaming in there is Lee really screaming,” Donner said. Read more facts about The Omen at mental_floss.

Book Monster - Self Help Is A Bit Dry, But Cookbooks Are Delicious! Posted: 30 Oct 2015 03:00 PM PDT Book Monster by Sombras Blancas Art & Design The citizens of Sesame Street were always telling Cookie that he needed to get an education, so he decided to change up his diet and eat something that would give him more brain power. He tried to eat discs but their jagged edges were too sharp, and then he tried to eat the internet and discovered he could only hold about 5 MB of memory. Finally he settled on devouring those dry, dusty tomes known as books, which worked like a charm and immediately increased his monster mind. He stopped speaking in the third person, stopped eating everything in sight and started writing a memoir entitled "Blue Fur Beginnings and the Fleece Faced Future- My life as a monster on Sesame Street". Sounds like a real page chewer! People will want to gobble you up when they see you wearing this Book Monster t-shirt by Sombras Blancas Art & Design, wear it to your book club and your fellow bibliophiles will be all smiles! Visit Sombras Blancas Art & Design's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs: The Boy Who Lived Unicorn Cookie Mini Adventurer Monster Pattern View more designs by Sombras Blancas Art & Design | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

Are Humans Meant to be Monogamous? Posted: 30 Oct 2015 03:00 PM PDT When you ask psychologists, biologists, and sexuality experts whether humans are meant to be monogamous, the first thing they will come back with is, What do you mean by “meant to be”? Society, culture, and religion affect what we do as much as evolution and biology. So they were asked if monogamy is "natural" for humans. Author and educational consultant Dr. Elisabeth Sheff begins with the facts that most of the experts quoted agree upon. I'm not sure if there is any intention behind it, but monogamy certainly is not "natural" in that it does not seem to be effortless for anyone. Things that are "natural" for people—like breathing, blinking, and wanting to protect our children—do not need nearly so many social strictures to keep them in place. Monogamy, or any form of sexual exclusivity, however, has many rules and laws governing it. Rather than the naturalness of monogamy, the fact that cultures around the world and across time have created hundreds or thousands of protocols and punishments to patrol and enforce sexual exclusivity (especially for women) indicates that it is socially constructed and not something humans will do "naturally" without external intervention. If humans didn't crave a variety of sexual experiences with new partners, then cultures would not have to work so hard to keep people from having sex with someone who is not their spouse. While the experts agree about humanity’s natural urges, some go on to say that monogamy, while unnatural, is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it unachievable for individuals. However, it is not universally enforceable. People have tried so many other types of relationships: polygamy, serial monogamy, public fidelity with private infidelity, etc. and they all have their drawbacks. So human beings will continue to struggle with the desire for a loyal lifelong soulmate vs. the desire for sexual variety. Read what five different experts have to say on the subject at Hopes and Fears. -via Digg

Celebrity Appearances Explained Posted: 30 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT Most celebrities look like normal, albeit fabulously wealthy, human beings, but those famous faces that look a little too normal for too long start to raise some red flags. Why aren't they aging? Are they truly the superhuman beings they pretend to be on the big screen? How do they maintain their appearance while living that Hollywood lifestyle? This comic by Julia Lepetit of Dorkly should clear up any misconceptions you have about the ageless Keanu look, the slightly less ageless but still great lookin' for his age Patrick Stewart, and the "WTF am I lookin' at?!" Guy Fieri look. See How To Explain Celebrity Appearances at Dorkly

363 Paintings on Tea Bags Posted: 30 Oct 2015 01:00 PM PDT Ruby Silvious is an artist in upstate New York. As a creative displine, she decided to paint at least one image per day for 363 days. She chose as her medium used tea bags. She features scenes of everyday life, still lives, figure studies, and images of both whimsy and melancholy. You can follow her progress on Instagram. -via Khool

The Stories Behind Banned Candies Posted: 30 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT Every Halloween, adults are prompted to reminisce about candies we loved that are no longer manufactured. Most of those are gone because of business decisions: either they didn’t sell well or the manufacturer is gone. But there have been candies that disappeared for more interesting reasons, like consumer complaints or even copyright infringement. You might think the Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge Chew Bar shown here disappeared because it was in bad taste (or tasted bad), but the real reason is much more horrifying. It came as little surprise to many when a candy called “Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge Chew Bars” was recalled in 2011 for being, yes, toxic. Tests by the California Department of Public Health indicated that many of the bars had "elevated levels of lead"–approximately .24 parts per million, more than double the standard US FDA “tolerance” of .1 parts per million. Of course, lead poisoning can be fatal, especially in pregnant women and children under six years old. As for the culprit, Indianapolis’ Candy Dynamics sold the candy (they are still in business), but it was manufactured in Pakistan, a country notorious for having lax safety and health standards. Luckily, no one reported becoming sick from the candy. The recall was self-imposed, out of what Candy Dynamics called "an abundance of caution." Read the stories behind five other candy disappearances in a list at Atlas Obscura.

Man Saves Baby Deer, Deer Doesn't Want To Leave Man's Side Posted: 30 Oct 2015 11:00 AM PDT People usually don't expect to receive a reward when they save an animal's life because it's reward enough to know the animal is alive and well thanks to a little human help. An outdoorsman named Darius noticed a newborn deer with a hitch in its giddy-up thanks to an injured front leg, and when the deer's mama ditched it Darius took it in and helped set its leg straight. After some rehabilitation and tender loving care from Darius, and his lovable Bernese Mack, the little deer's leg was as good as new, and the deer couldn't thank Darius enough. But, after a few months with its foster family, the little deer spotted her mother and rejoined her forest dwelling family, leaving Darius with a deer shaped hole in his heart. (YouTube Link) Read about the Baby Deer Who Doesn't Want To Leave The Man Who Saved Her Life here

The Real Reason They Gave Drugs to Spiders Posted: 30 Oct 2015 10:00 AM PDT You’ve no doubt seen pictures of webs built by spiders that were given various drugs. We reported on it years ago, and even posted a wonderful video of the spiders in action. But who came up with the idea of giving drugs to spiders in the first place? In 1948, a zookeeper wanted to observe spiders building webs, so he asked a druggist to give them something to make them build webs during the daylight hours. The idea didn’t work, but it opened the door to a different project. Pharmacologist Dr. Peter N. Witt was intrigued by the idea that spiders would built a different kind of web due to the drugs they ingested. Could this gimmick be made into a drug test? Or even a diagnostic tool? It appears Witt imagined a world where all police departments and hospitals have a sort of spider lab. When a patient or inmate behaved strangely, that person's blood would be fed to a spider, which would then be left overnight to build a web. In the morning, a careful look at the spider's handiwork would provide answers. "Aha! My webs indicate this inmate over here is a laudanum addict, and this poor patient is suffering from schizoaffective disorder," a chin-scratching lab technician might have said. "It obviously didn't work that well," Rayor told me. "That wasn't necessarily the end-all-and-be-all in terms of analyzing what kinds of drugs people had taken." Eventually technologies like mass spectrometry made Witt's spidergraph (my word, not his) unnecessary. What did they learn? That spiders don't like drinking the urine of schizophrenics. Entomologists were not involved in the project, and they have a different view of the experiment. For one thing, spiders don’t react to drugs the same way humans do, and the way they spin their webs depends of a lot of different things, which you can read about at Vice. -via Metafilter (Image credit: NASA)

Vote for the Best Horror Movie in this Horror Bracket Posted: 30 Oct 2015 09:00 AM PDT What's your favorite horror movie? I'd love to hear your answers in the comments, but if you'd like to vote against other horror fans you'll want to head over to The Daily Dot where you can help vote for the top horror film of all time. Since Halloween is almost here the bracket is almost closed, so you can help narrow things down between Shaun of the Dead, The Exorcist, The Shining and Alien. Which one will win? Only time will tell.

Trying to Capture a Halloween Cat Photo Posted: 30 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT Chris Poole wanted to take pictures of his cats Cole and Marmalade in their Halloween costumes. Cole is Batcat and Marmalade is Supermarm. He even made an elaborate backdrop for the pictures. But cats don’t like to cooperate with anything a human comes up with. If you get them to look at the camera, they immediately jump at it. If you distract their attention away from the camera, all you see is the rear of the cat. So it goes. (YouTube link) Cats do much better in video form, where you can watch their movements ranging from graceful to disgraceful to hilarious. -via Tastefully Offensive   See also: more from Cole and Marmalade.

31 Thrilling Transformations Realized with the Power of Makeup Posted: 30 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT image: Alexander Khoklov The metamorphosis that can be achieved with the help of a talented makeup artist and his or her wares is mindblowing. Truly, the design is only limited by the imagination of the designer. As Halloween nears, so much emphasis is placed on the clothing component of the costume. Yet with one of the amazing faces shown here, not much else is needed. One could wear a nondescript outfit of all black and be set for any event celebrating All Hallows' Eve.  See all 31 makeup transformations here.  Image: Hikaru Cho Image: Hikaru Cho

What a Modern-Day Aladdin Would Look Like Posted: 30 Oct 2015 06:00 AM PDT We're astonishingly close to being able to duplicate the magic displayed in the Disney movie Aladdin. That's because of the 2-wheeled scooter that some people are very generously referring to as a hoverboard. Mo Khan demonstrates in this cosplay that seems to impress no one at the Walmart. The next challenge: finding a way to bring Jasmine along for the ride. That magic carpet is definitely not a two-seater. -via BuzzFeed

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